If red hair is far less common....?

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I work in a  preschool. We have 75 kids total enrolled. Of these 11 have red hair, I mean really red hair. Last year we had 8. None of these kids are related. only 2 have a parent with naturally red hair. If red hair is so uncommon what are the chances of that? There is even a staff member with natural red hair. half these kids ave of these kids have siblings, one has an older school age brother who has red hair, and another with a younger brother.The rest of the siblings do not

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Sounds like you've got some cool statistic defying stuff going on there. I'd attribute it to chance, but that's pretty cool. Could be a geographical reason, if you live somewhere colonized heavily by the Irish for instance, then it's very likely that, since red hair is recessive, that these children's parents were carriers, and one of their children would be likely to have red hair

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WOW!!! Im a red head and never come across such an amount of redheads in one place! Amazing

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